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Toby
@tobyellis.bsky.social
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Guitarist 🎸 Songwriter 🎶
Studio Nerd 🎤 Cyclist 🚴🏻
🤘🏻Toby Ellis and the Breakdown 🤘🏻
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Took this photo while getting band photos made. #thebreakdown
July 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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modacitylife.com
When it comes to cycling, the Dutch succeed because we don't see it as a cost—we see it as an investment. One that delivers returns across healthcare, climate, public space, local economies and quality of life.

If we want better cities, we need better business cases: dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/bl...
A series of photographs of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands that includes bike lanes and bike parking in cities large and small. A series of photographs of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands that includes bike lanes and bike parking in cities large and small. A series of photographs of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands that includes bike lanes and bike parking in cities large and small. A series of photographs of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands that includes bike lanes and bike parking in cities large and small.
June 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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globalmuseum.bsky.social
This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗
So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old!
@55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius
June 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
tobyellis.bsky.social
Yours truly and Cher’Rita Horne performing as part of the Women’s Day service at the Unitarian Church of Evansville.
March 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Merry Gilmourmas to those who celebrate!
March 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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I'll be playing tonight with my friends Cher'Rita Horne and Bethany Gillespie. A chill night of great music to kick off your Valentine's weekend.
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
tobyellis.bsky.social
This article basically restates every reason I left Twitter after 13 years on the platform. I'm glad I didn't stick around for the X era.
BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Not About One Office, One Country, or One Week
This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
tobyellis.bsky.social
IU is ranked on of the worst universities in the nation for free speech. Yay sportsball, I guess. #freespeech
Indiana University again ranks among nation’s worst for free speech, FIRE report finds • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana University is once again among the worst colleges in the country for free speech, according to a new report.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:24 PM
tobyellis.bsky.social
“Once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”

#mindfulness
June 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"If you are waiting to be free of struggle in order to be happy, you could be waiting forever."
#Mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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“We all have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.”
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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"The truth of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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"You are only confined by the walls you build yourself."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve."
#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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"Between stimulus and response lies a space. In that space lies our freedom."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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“The only thing standing between you and happiness is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't be happy right now”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
May 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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"Avoidance has a way of empowering the thing you’re avoiding."

#mindfulness
April 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
tobyellis.bsky.social
"To get over the past you first have to accept that the past is over."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"Although nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can begin now and make a new ending."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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"If you enjoy something, there is no failure, because enjoyment itself is success. Remember that next time you hold yourself back because you worry you won't be good enough."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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“You can’t heal if you keep pretending you’re not hurt.”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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"So when you think about “being yourself” or “discovering yourself,” recognize that you aren’t searching for a fixed thing, but a process that is always changing and unfolding."

#mindfulness
April 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"What is going on around you doesn't matter nearly as much as what is going on within you."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."

#mindfulness #dailymindfulness
April 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM